Future E-PRTR, EH InfoSystems, E-Scorecard - co-operating tools for Risk Management of Chemicals?

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Future E-PRTR, EH InfoSystems, E-Scorecard
-co-operating tools for Risk Management of
Chemicals?

• Ondrej Velek
• ondrej.velek_at_ecn.cz
• UNECE side event, Budapest, June 23,2004
• PRTRs now! How Pollutant and Transfer Registers
  can promote Pan-European Environmental and Public
  Health

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Management of Chemicals LCA-like regulations of
materials, money, information?
EH IS
PRTR
PRTR
REACH
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Management of Chemicals

• Pyramid of Chemicals around us
• 10 - banned
• 100 - restricted ...
• 1000 - reported (PRTR ...)
• 10 000 - studied (IRPTC ...)
• 100 000 - registered (REACH ...)
• 20 000 000 - named (CAS numbered)

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Env.Health Info Systems and Chemosphere? Doses -
exposures - effects..
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PRTR - Tool for Risk Management

• Nat. PRTRs, GIS and modelling tools available
  ...
• Identification of hotspots ex-post
• Identification of Diffuse sources in local
  context
• Identification of sensitive groups (children,
  women and eldery) near facilities
• Risk Analysis and Models of risk ex-ante
• Risk Communication in local context

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E-PRTR step-by-step Development ?
Norway proposal...
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EH IS -PRTR Integration? - SWOT
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Some useful PRTR links

• http//www.unece.org/env/pp/prtr.htm
• http//www.who.int/iomc/cg.htmlPRTR
• http//www.unitar.org/cwm/
• http//prtrvc.unitar.org
• http//irptc.unep.ch/prtr/default.htm
• http//www.oecd.org/ www.cec.org
• http//www.eper.cec.eu.int/
• http//www.iheal.org..